It's been an eventful few weeks in Sino-Western relations. Google shut down its operations in China after it refused to self-censor search results there. Four employees for Australian mining giant Rio Tinto were sentenced to... read more

Last week, China, with its inexhaustible ability to scare the shit out of Western corporations and governments, stoked the concern of Western conglomerates doing business in the Far East by indicting four employees from... read more

Last week, China, with its inexhaustible ability to scare the shit out of Western corporations and governments, stoked the concern of Western conglomerates doing business in the Far East by indicting four employees from... read more

We're huge fans of comically stilted, weirdly hyper-specific documents, so we were excited to read that the Beijing Organizing Committeeworking in conjunction, no doubt, with China's Ministry of Comically Stilted, Weirdly Hyper-Specific Documentshad produced a fifty-seven-item set of legal guidelines for Olympics-bound foreigners. And man, this thing does not disappoint. read more

Is China ready for the next stage of capitalism? How about a $400,000, 12-cylinder, 540-horsepower, Corinthian-leathered hunk of lust and envy known as the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti? Michael Paterniti drove one all the way from Beijing to the Gobi desert to find out read more